growth vs recapitulation

recapitulation vs growth

growth and recapitulation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
growth	Yes	No	No	No
recapitulation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recapitulation is a hyponym of growth; that is, recapitulation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than growth:

growth: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
recapitulation: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

Other hyponyms of growth include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

growth (noun)	recapitulation (noun)
the gradual beginning or coming forth	(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
vegetation that has grown	a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
something grown or growing	(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level	emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
a progression from simpler to more complex forms
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

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